Chapter 638: The moon landing program is launched

The equipment was ready, and under the arrangement of the ink girl, she began to enter the hangar in an orderly manner. Except for those that are difficult to transport, the rest of the parts are produced at the site.

Among them, the largest aircraft shell is mainly made of 3D printing technology, which can save materials and can make the fuselage integral.

As soon as the equipment of Hangar 2 was installed, good news came from Building 1 of the headquarters.

The equipment needed to land on the moon has been prepared.

What was in front of Chen Mo was the equipment needed to land on the moon.

Including lunar soil 3D printer, lunar excavator, lunar tunnel shield robot, handling robot, construction robot, intelligent transportation robot, ground drilling robot, geological exploration robot, data acquisition robot, lunar seismograph, lighting robot and small helium-3 extraction robot.

The lunar soil 3D printer is manufactured using 3D printing technology, and the function is to use the lunar soil to print the moon bricks required for the construction of the base, only the size of two refrigerators, the machine is somewhat special, and it is made of heat-resistant and cold-resistant materials, and can print a maximum of one square meter of moon tiles, and then the construction robot will build the base.

The structure of the Moon Shield robot is different from that of the Earth's tunnel shield. It has two drill bits, one round and one sharp, not big, with a diameter of only 1.5 meters, mainly to expand the tunnel, the legs of the machine are extended, can be 3.5 meters high, and the drill bit can also move freely, enough to expand the tunnel.

Small helium-3 extraction robots are the first machines to extract helium-3, and now a larger number of controlled nuclear fusion power stations are under construction, deuterium-tritium fuel production is limited, and it is expensive to die, and helium-3 is the best alternative fuel for long-term development.

One thing these machines have in common is that they are resistant to heat and cold.

The device has been tested to work well in environments between -180 degrees Celsius and 400 degrees Celsius.

Chen Mo's purpose in building the lunar base is to use the resources on the moon and to accumulate experience for space exploration. If this step is successful, he will be ready to explore the other planets of the solar system.

All the robots add up, there are a lot of them, and the space of the Goddess is limited, so Chen Mo is ready to send the Goddess and the Sky Ant to transport equipment together and land on the moon.

"Mo Nu, contact Academician Zhang Jianfeng." Chen Mo said.

Now to prepare for the moon landing, the lunar exploration engineering team needs his help to carry an ecological experiment module and two astronauts to the moon.

"Academician Chen, don't come unharmed." Zhang Jianfeng appeared in the video, with a little expectation in his expression.

"Academician Zhang, I'm ready to land on the moon, I'll inform you to get ready."

"Okay, okay, is the time decided?" Zhang Jianfeng smiled.

Finally waiting for this day.

Some time ago, he contacted Chen Mo, and Chen Mo told him that after returning from space tourism, he would prepare to land on the moon. He also heard that Chen Mo had been recuperating for a month since he returned from space travel, and now he was finally going to land on the moon.

"It's confirmed, ten days later, it's enough for you to prepare, right?"

"Enough is enough." Zhang Jianfeng nodded hurriedly.

Five days later, a transport plane landed at the Flying Ant Space Center, led by Zhang Jianfeng, and more than a dozen team members got off the plane.

On the transport plane, the small ecological experiment module that needs to be landed on the moon and the equipment of the astronauts also began to be unloaded and transported into the research institute of the space center under the command of the staff.

Seeing the appearance of the Flying Ant Space Center again, Zhang Jianfeng was a little emotional.

In less than half a year, the base has expanded by 30,000 acres, and now the scale of the Flying Ant Space Center has been comparable to that of a national space center, and the technology it has is more advanced than them.

As a private company, it has never been seen before.

"Academician Chen."

Zhang Jianfeng took the lead, said hello to Chen Mo, and began to introduce the team members around him.

"These two are Yang Yunsheng and Cai Kang, the astronauts who landed on the moon this time."

"Hello."

Chen Mo said hello to the two.

The two are not very tall, visual inspection is about 168-170, which is selected according to the astronaut standard, and the height cannot be too tall. However, the two of them looked very energetic, smiling, and when they shook hands with Chen Mo and saluted, their demeanor was very neat.

This is one in a hundred, the best astronauts, want to get this opportunity, how much suffering they have suffered, only they know.

In addition to Yang Yunsheng and Cai Kang, there is also a detective research team.

During the period of lunar exploration, they will maintain the connection between the ground and the moon at the Flying Ant Space Center, pay attention to the health status of astronauts on the moon, and respond at any time.

"Academician Chen, where are you preparing to land this time?" On the way back to the space center, Zhang Jianfeng asked.

"On the back of the moon, 139.62 degrees east longitude, 24.37 degrees south latitude."

Chen Mo used a holographic projection platform to call up the terrain of the tunnel.

"Our robot has found a lava tunnel of a lunar paleovolcano here, and the location is good, and there is enough space, so I am ready to build the first lunar base here."

As he spoke, Chen Mo called up the map of the molten tunnel, and the underground tunnels that extended in all directions, the topography and landform of the location, environmental data, and temperature differences all appeared in front of the lunar exploration team.

"Done exploring?"

The members of the lunar exploration team looked at the long tunnel in disbelief.

Chen Mo's speed was terrifyingly fast.

They all know that the lunar underground tunnel is one of the ideal locations for the construction of a lunar base, and they are also looking for exploration, but they didn't expect Chen Mo to be so fast.

"As luck would have me, I launched more than two dozen robots, including a data acquisition robot and a prospecting robot. This is the data that the bot sends back. This launch mission is to transport the robot to the past and carry out preliminary modification of the tunnel in preparation for the construction of the lunar base. ”

Chen Mo called out all the robots that were about to land on the moon.

Seeing the tools and design of the robot, the researchers on the field can roughly guess the role of the robot, and they are also sighing at the power of the robot technology of the marching ant group.

"What is this?" Zhang Jianfeng pointed to the helium-3 extraction machine and asked curiously.

"Helium-3 extraction machine for the extraction of helium-3 from lunar soil."

Hiss!!

The researchers on the field knew Chen Mo's plans and ambitions.

So soon to develop the helium-3 resource on the moon.

Now that two controlled fusion power stations have been put into operation, and more are under construction, the fuel is a lot of money, and if helium-3 can be developed, the marching ant group will control the core technology and materials of controlled nuclear fusion, which is unlimited wealth.

However, they also know that Chen Mo must make money by investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the moon landing program, not just as scientific exploration.

"Now is just the beginning, I'm building bigger spaceships that will later develop lunar travel and even land on Mars to build a base." Chen Mo said.

The lunar exploration project team was all enthusiastic about Chen Mo's words.

They didn't doubt Chen Mo's words, even if Chen Mo's current strength already had the ability to explore Mars. Chen Mo knows that now that he is exploring Mars, the benefits are not large, the investment is very large, he is not doing a loss-making business, and he has not yet reached that stage.

"If that's okay, now we can announce our manned moon landing program to the outside world."

"No problem."

Zhang Jianfeng immediately agreed.

The next morning, the Flying Ant Space Center held a press conference.

Li Ruoxi, general manager of the Flying Ant Space Center, and Zhang Jianfeng of the lunar exploration engineering team attended the meeting and announced the plan of joint manned landing on the far side of the moon.